How are you supposed to do raids solo?

[Grima The Fell Dragon]

I did Blazemut Ryu oh that was rough because my base of max level pals just got whalloped and I barely eeked out a win. Are you supposed to look up what the boss is and breed perfect pals as a counter, or do I need base defenses? Please help.

[Oreo]

In my solo play, I built a base somewhere relatively flat with basic stuff like a food bowl and beds. Built a defensive wall to separate from the summoning item. I figured out what element the raid bosses are (either via google or summoning and finding out) and chose a pal that would counter that element(s). I bred the pal with traits I felt were useful and effective, made 20+ versions of it fully powered up (condensed).

Guides will tell you you have to use a certain pal for certain fights, but in my experience the element they are and the abilities you have them equip are what matter. I did not find the defensive base items (machine guns that the pals use, etc.) helpful and easily destroyed.

I would not recommend fighting the raid bosses at a base that is important to you or production.

[FSHerrante]

You can, but needs a specific attack configuration for every raid boss. And this needs time and some trys.

Blazamut Ryu destroys any structure under normal play conditions

[Grima The Fell Dragon]

Originally posted by Oreo:

In my solo play, I built a base somewhere relatively flat with basic stuff like a food bowl and beds. Built a defensive wall to separate from the summoning item. I figured out what element the raid bosses are (either via google or summoning and finding out) and chose a pal that would counter that element(s). I bred the pal with traits I felt were useful and effective, made 20+ versions of it fully powered up (condensed).

Guides will tell you you have to use a certain pal for certain fights, but in my experience the element they are and the abilities you have them equip are what matter. I did not find the defensive base items (machine guns that the pals use, etc.) helpful and easily destroyed.

I would not recommend fighting the raid bosses at a base that is important to you or production.

OK cause i just used a fresh throwaway base to fight him. I just dislike breeding, but that's not too bad if its just counter element and condense.

[Oreo]

Originally posted by Grima The Fell Dragon:

Originally posted by Oreo:

In my solo play, I built a base somewhere relatively flat with basic stuff like a food bowl and beds. Built a defensive wall to separate from the summoning item. I figured out what element the raid bosses are (either via google or summoning and finding out) and chose a pal that would counter that element(s). I bred the pal with traits I felt were useful and effective, made 20+ versions of it fully powered up (condensed).

Guides will tell you you have to use a certain pal for certain fights, but in my experience the element they are and the abilities you have them equip are what matter. I did not find the defensive base items (machine guns that the pals use, etc.) helpful and easily destroyed.

I would not recommend fighting the raid bosses at a base that is important to you or production.

OK cause i just used a fresh throwaway base to fight him. I just dislike breeding, but that's not too bad if its just counter element and condense.

Some sources insist you need the Internal Value Stats (you can see those with the accessory glasses equipped) maxed out as well, but that's just personal preference, I did them with pals that were far from maxed IVs.

edit: Long story short, totally doable solo. You got this!

[Grima The Fell Dragon]

Originally posted by Oreo:

Originally posted by Grima The Fell Dragon:

OK cause i just used a fresh throwaway base to fight him. I just dislike breeding, but that's not too bad if its just counter element and condense.

Some sources insist you need the Internal Value Stats (you can see those with the accessory glasses equipped) maxed out as well, but that's just personal preference, I did them with pals that were far from maxed IVs.

edit: Long story short, totally doable solo. You got this!

Thanks! I just gotta get the shards for Xenolord and the alternate bellanoir

[drakeloreroar]

First: A dedicate raid base. Preferably something away from anything else (not just to avoid damaging your bases but all those trees and rocks that get destroyed can cause lag)

Second: Raid Pals. Maxed out IVs and Souls are strongly recommended for Blazamut Ryu and Xenolord (while not required you'll find it very hard for your pals to survive and beat the 10 minute timer if you don't)

Third: Strong moves and Passives. Air Blade and Holy Burst are some of the best raid buster moves available and you can grow Air Blade fruit until you get a Holy Burst fruit randomly and then grow those too. Serenity for a passive is basically a requirement given it's effectively a 60%+ DPS increase mainly due to the cooldown reduction.

Fourth: Pre-raid prep. Make sure you feed them the best attack boosting food you can make before you start the fight.

Fifth: Backups. You can always swap your raid team out mid fight.

[Grima The Fell Dragon]

Originally posted by drakeloreroar:

First: A dedicate raid base. Preferably something away from anything else (not just to avoid damaging your bases but all those trees and rocks that get destroyed can cause lag)

Second: Raid Pals. Maxed out IVs and Souls are strongly recommended for Blazamut Ryu and Xenolord (while not required you'll find it very hard for your pals to survive and beat the 10 minute timer if you don't)

Third: Strong moves and Passives. Air Blade and Holy Burst are some of the best raid buster moves available and you can grow Air Blade fruit until you get a Holy Burst fruit randomly and then grow those too. Serenity for a passive is basically a requirement given it's effectively a 60%+ DPS increase mainly due to the cooldown reduction.

Fourth: Pre-raid prep. Make sure you feed them the best attack boosting food you can make before you start the fight.

Fifth: Backups. You can always swap your raid team out mid fight.

Okay thank you for the information

[Yal]

Also one more important tip: don't build your palbox on a foundation, if the foundation gets destroyed the palbox gets destroyed and you lose the raid. Palboxes still have more health than any foundations so you're essentially making them weaker by putting them on a foundation.

[Grima The Fell Dragon]

Originally posted by Yal:

Also one more important tip: don't build your palbox on a foundation, if the foundation gets destroyed the palbox gets destroyed and you lose the raid. Palboxes still have more health than any foundations so you're essentially making them weaker by putting them on a foundation.

Thanks!

[★REM★]

Originally posted by Grima The Fell Dragon:

I did Blazemut Ryu oh that was rough because my base of max level pals just got whalloped and I barely eeked out a win. Are you supposed to look up what the boss is and breed perfect pals as a counter, or do I need base defenses? Please help.

If you prepared enough, there is no problem at all.
If you are sturggling, you are not prepared, easy as that.

[Yal]

Originally posted by Irene ❤:

Build the summon atlar super high, at 100th floor. The boss will destroy platform, fall from height and take damage.

At floor 1 to 99, surround the drop with landmines. So the boss take 5000 damage * 10 landmines *100 floors = 5000000 damage.

https://i.imgur.com/3ftGQzA.png

I've considered the campfire cheese but this sounds even better, lmao
(but just a LOT more of a pain to build)

Will it still work with flying bosses though?

[Grima The Fell Dragon]

Originally posted by Irene ❤:

Build the summon atlar super high, at 100th floor. The boss will destroy platform, fall from height and take damage.

At floor 1 to 99, surround the drop with landmines. So the boss take 5000 damage * 10 landmines *100 floors = 5000000 damage.

https://i.imgur.com/3ftGQzA.png

That is ingenious to use the physics against the boss, and finally a good use for landmines. Thanks!

[Grima The Fell Dragon]

Originally posted by ★REM★:

Originally posted by Grima The Fell Dragon:

I did Blazemut Ryu oh that was rough because my base of max level pals just got whalloped and I barely eeked out a win. Are you supposed to look up what the boss is and breed perfect pals as a counter, or do I need base defenses? Please help.

If you prepared enough, there is no problem at all.
If you are sturggling, you are not prepared, easy as that.

To be fair I didn't do raids because originally when they were added i assumed from getting nuked by bellanoir that it was meant for multiplayer. It's only now I'm trying to catch up on my paldex to be prepared for further content.

[Yal]

Originally posted by Grima The Fell Dragon:

Originally posted by ★REM★:

If you prepared enough, there is no problem at all.
If you are sturggling, you are not prepared, easy as that.

To be fair I didn't do raids because originally when they were added i assumed from getting nuked by bellanoir that it was meant for multiplayer. It's only now I'm trying to catch up on my paldex to be prepared for further content.

My impression has been that the player(s) are pretty much inconsequential for the fight, because with a base full of strong pals blasting their moves all at once you're not gonna contribute a lot of damage in the grand scheme of things (even being able to tell if you are HITTING the boss or not is pretty much impossible thanks to the sheer amount of things all happening at once). The main thing you're doing tends to be hanging out by the palbox cycling out anyone that's been KO'd.

[Grima The Fell Dragon]

Originally posted by Yal:

Originally posted by Grima The Fell Dragon:

To be fair I didn't do raids because originally when they were added i assumed from getting nuked by bellanoir that it was meant for multiplayer. It's only now I'm trying to catch up on my paldex to be prepared for further content.

My impression has been that the player(s) are pretty much inconsequential for the fight, because with a base full of strong pals blasting their moves all at once you're not gonna contribute a lot of damage in the grand scheme of things (even being able to tell if you are HITTING the boss or not is pretty much impossible thanks to the sheer amount of things all happening at once). The main thing you're doing tends to be hanging out by the palbox cycling out anyone that's been KO'd.

Yeah pretty much the player is support because enough effects turns it into an endgame vampire survivors build in the gentle art of I can't see nothing.